twelve
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Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, who has maintained his innocence for four years and is bedridden, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday under the same protocol that failed twelve weeks ago with Carruthers.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“In fact, we’ve added more first-time users over the past twelve months than in any period over the past five years.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It has cookie dough, because sometimes hospitality means baking twelve cookies for friends, and sometimes it means baking two for yourself while standing barefoot in the kitchen.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Researchers identified bones there belonging to at least twelve Neanderthals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Eight times twelve is ninety-six! Do you recall that peculiar letter I sent you? Filled with pages about multiplication and ferns and so on?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
We need to think about the world in terms of twelves!
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 7, 2019
Six seeds are 86-50 against the elevens, fives are 89-47 against twelves, and once you get to fours vs. thirteens, you're in never gonna happen territory.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 18, 2019
Your teacher chants, “Twelve twelves, a hundred thirty-four.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2012
To lessen drag, Eagle's new tab-shaped rudder is much smaller than usual and is tucked farther forward than in most twelves.
From Time Magazine Archive
He liked eights best, but he’d settle for fours, sixes, twelves, sixteens, any even number, really.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
